From Russia with Lies: How MAGA GOP Spreads Putin’s $600K Disinfo
“Firm that paid indicted FBI informant tied to Trump associates”
“Alexander Smirnov was paid $600,000 in 2020 – the same year he allegedly began lying to FBI about Bidens’ role in Ukraine business… Smirnov is now accused of lying to the FBI that they engaged in a bribery scheme with executives at the Ukrainian energy company Burisma. Smirnov’s accounts to the FBI, beginning in 2020, that federal prosecutors now say are fabrications, served as a major justification of the House impeachment investigation into the Bidens.
An American company that paid the now indicted FBI informant Alexander Smirnov in 2020 is connected to a UK company owned by Trump business associates in Dubai, according to business filings and court documents.” – The Guardian
Follow the money, Russian disinformation, operatives and ‘useful idiots‘ spreading disinformation with this chart.
MAGA GOP amplifies Russian disinformation
Trump’s Middle East partners
“Condon, Arjomand and Khan registered ETT Investment Holding Limited in the UK on 6 March 2020. Khan, an investor who purchased the Plaza hotel in 2018, and Arjomand have ties to Donald Trump through Trump associates and Damac, a major Middle East developer that has partnered with Trump for a decade.
The former Damac chairman Hussain Sajwani is also close to Trump and has been described as his friend in multiple news reports. Trump has called the billionaire a “friend” and a “great man”, and his family “the most beautiful people”. – The Guardian
“Funny how that keeps happening with Donald Trump, isn’t it? In 2016, it was yet another itinerant floating-money Russian intelligence-connected guy named Joseph Mifsud, who in Rome spied an eager-beaver young “adviser” to Donald Trump’s campaign named George Papadopoulos…” – Lucian Truscott
What is a ‘Useful Idiot’?
Useful idiot refers to people who are easily manipulated, brainwashed. People who are a great way to propagandize a cause without fully comprehending the cause’s goals, and the entire ideology behind it. A “Useful idiot” is manipulated and used by the cause’s leaders, a person who blindly follows any ideology and ignores the facts.
A popular belief is that the term was invented in the Soviet Russia, more specifically by Vladimir Lenin, to describe the people who are communist sympathizers in America. They called them useful because they saw them as great tools to allocate communist propaganda to other countries, but as soon as the mission was completed those people were not “useful” anymore.” – Digital Cultures
TakeAway: Follow the money and agendas behind people spreading disinformation.
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References:
US firm that paid indicted FBI informant tied to Trump associates, records reveal – The Guardian
The sneaky snakey world of Donald Trump’s America – Lucian Truscott
The Informant Turned Defendant Who Took Aim at the Bidens – NY Times
FBI Informant in Hunter Biden Case Left Trail of Broken Promises – Wall Street Journal
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